Bio
Lance Turner has exhibited in galleries and Museums throughout the United States, including ArtFields in Lake City, SC in 2015, 2021, and 2023. He painted two large scale public murals for ArtFields; He has shown at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in Los Angeles, CA in each year 2013-2018; He was part of a 3 person mural for a large scale video game exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis,TN; the artist has shown at the Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda, FL; The Southern Nevada Museum of Art in Las Vegas, NV; The Farmington Museum of Art in Farmington, NM; and the Woodruff Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, GA. The artist has had 4 residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, winning the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship in 2016 and 2017, the 35 for 35 Fellowship and the Merit Award in 2019. The artist has painted two murals on South Main Street in Memphis, TN in 2015 and 2019. His work was recently published in issues 118 and 142 of New American Paintings. He has been in the Memphis Flyer’s Best of Issue in 2008 and 2015 for Solo Exhibitions and the Odessa Gallery, and as the first resident artist at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN. He won the ArtsMemphis Arts Accelerator Grant in 2015, and the United Arts Councils of North Carolina Working Artist Grant in 2014. Lance Turner was born in North Carolina in 1985. He graduated from Memphis College of Art with a BFA in Painting and Art History in 2007, and a MFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2012.
